It was time to start work, Saulo and I finished eating the pudding and approached my sister and Assan.

  "All right, Assan and Seth, assess the body, I'll talk to Alexandre Bonaze" - I stared at my sister as she spoke, how she was so bad with names.

  "Sister, it's Alessandro Bonanno" - I corrected her as Saul and Assan stared.

  "Yes, do you have your badges?" - I pulled mine out of my shirt and Saulo did the same.

  "No need, I can just make them sleep" - Assan also pulled out a badge from inside his cassock, his gray fingers wrapped around it.

  "We're working with caution, that would cause problems later" - I explained to Assan, who just grunted angrily.

  "Saulo, you watch and stay silent" - the boy nodded, he didn't made the mistake of speaking something.

  I sighed and turned to the policemen guarding the area of the bodies, three were manning the entrance and further in was Bonanno.

  When I got to the policemen, i showed them the badge and Assan did the same.

  In essence, it was an empty object, but through the application of the Sefirah of Binah and the number four, embedded in the base of the object, normal minds could see and understand what was necessary to be fooled.

  The policeman in front read the badge and immediately opened his eyes wide, removing his green cap.

  "Nice to meet you, I'm Sergeant Ramond" - the policeman's face was worried, unfortunately we have no way of knowing what he saw on the badge, I still have to work on that part.

  "Nice to meet you Sergeant, i am Seth, this is my colleague Assan" - I looked inside the lanes, looking for somewhere to throw the pudding jars.

  "Let's get straight to the point, we are here to assess the bodies" - Assan took the lead, his patience running out fast, Saul just watched the scene, out of the corner of his eye I could see Cassiel slipping into the lanes on the other side and going to talk to an older man.

  Ramond moved his face and stared at the young Saul, probably surprised that someone so young was present, the effect of the badge then took effect and the man smiled.

  "If you don't mind me asking, why did three officers from the Carabinieri came to Venice for this case?" - great, the badge hid us as members of Italy's military police force, efficient, strangely Assan answered before I had time to think of anything.

  "A criminal we are chasing arrived in the city recently, we've come to assess whether the corpses fit in with his modus operandi" - an outright lie, but it should suffice.

  "How long has this criminal been in town, if you don't mind my asking?" - I thought for a moment and gave a answer.

  "Approximately eleven days ago, he disappeared from Rome and we were only able to trace his whereabouts as far as Venice" - I stared at the sergeant as he scratched his chin.

  "I beg your pardon for the questions, go " - again the effect of the badge must be in effect, in a normal situation none of this would work, but affecting the human mind is simple.

  The sergeant lifted the tape and led the way, the other policemen staying at the entrance for safety, Assan and I just followed without looking around because it wasn't important, but Saulo moved his head around the small port, seeing various apparatus he didn't know about, coroners' equipment near the area of the bodies, the weapons they held were also interesting, most of them only carried pistols and truncheons, but two of them wielded the Benelli M1 rifle.

  "Here we are" - as we crossed the small harbor we arrived at the bodies, as mentioned in the letter one of them had his eyes missing, the other had a piece of flesh missing from his thigh, but that wasn't all, the coroners left so that we could assess the bodies, Ramond left us there.

  I looked back and saw Saulo with his right hand covering his nose, this smell was important information, it means that they have been dead for at least twenty-four hours, having already passed through cadaveric rigidity.

  I left the pudding pots with Saulo and grabbed a pair of coroners' gloves, putting them on and bending down next to the bodies to analyze them.

  I first analyzed the corpse of the man without the flesh of the thigh, interacting with the inner part of the leg that remained, i noticed a sensation similar to wax, the internal fat was affected by humidity and water, it means that the body spent a long time in the water, probably discarded.

  This state was already crumbling fast, which explained the smell, so maybe he hadn't even been dead for twenty-four hours, i decided to go up to analyze the body, I removed the man's shirt to see his chest, it was hard and there was accumulated blood, it definitely hadn't been twenty-four hours, the top part must have been out of the water before.

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  I went up to the neck and head, there was a pinch mark on the man's neck, he had been choked to death, on closer inspection they weren't handprints, but rope marks, touching the back of his neck i noticed it was broken, he had been executed with a rope around his neck and knocked off something, like a chair.

  Finally I went to his forehead, there was a mark, a cross on a semicircle, the alchemical symbol of Saturn, this man was marked like a material.

  I sighed and got up, going over to the other body. Assan knelt down next to the first one and put his hands together, beginning a prayer; his role was not to analyze the physical bodies, but the spirit of the dead.

  Assessing the second body, I immediately went to the head, there was the same rope mark on the neck, killed in the same way, I looked at the face.

  "Saul, come here" - I moved my hands to where his eyes should have been, his eyelids were closed.

  "I'm here"- Saulo bent down beside me, confused as to why I had called him.

  "Do you know which planets the parts of the human body represent?" - I opened the corpse's eyelids, two orbs were in place of the eyes, the left eye had a silver orb with the symbol of the moon, the right eye had a yellow orb with the symbol of the sun.

  "Not much, I know that the heart represents the Earth" - Saul moved his head towards Assan, who was searching the other dead man's clothes.

  "In part, yes, the heart can also represent the sun, but the man who killed those two people chose to use the right eye as a representative, the left eye represents the moon, the other body had part of its thigh removed, the part of Saturn" - I explained to young Saulo as I removed the orbs from the eyes, a white liquid mixed with blood leaking out.

  "Right, what does that mean" - I looked at the boy, who was a notepad and pencil.

  "We're dealing with a wizard from the African continent or Asia" - I put the orbs away in a pocket of my pants as I stood up, looked at Assan and took off my gloves.

  "Anything useful?" - Assan raised his face towards me, I could see his eyes as black as night, it was almost scary.

  "There are at least two more dead, one for Mercury with the lungs, and a liver for Jupiter, all four died together" - Assan approached the eyeless body, beginning his next prayer.

  I let Assan do his work, and stood back with Saul, who was writing down what Assan said.

  Despite his terrible performance and lack of knowledge, he seemed motivated to learn, may God have mercy on him when my sister has her turn.

  I looked at the sea waters that circled the area as I thought, wondering why that particular city, Venice, is almost six hours from Rome, and the Vatican is in Rome, so it doesn't make sense for a magician to act so close to the church.

  "What are you thinking, sir?" - I looked at Saul, wondering how to answer him.

  They say that two heads think better than one, so I took a chance.

  "Wondering why a warlock is acting so close to the church's main headquarters" - Saul turned his head slightly.

  "Maybe he didn't have much choice, does Venice have anything special?" - was a good question, there was nothing very special about the city apart from the sea.

  "Let's wait for Assan to finish and then we'll find my sister, she must have finished talking to Alessandro by now" - I called out to a policeman who was just watching and handed him the pudding jars, he looked at me confused and left.

  Assan approached after a few minutes, having already finished his prayers and checked the body's clothing.

  "I got something, the man without eyes died yesterday at 9:25 a.m., the other man died yesterday at 3:37 p.m., the last memory of both was on a ferry going north" - I mentally noted down the times.

  "Did you see how any of them died?" - I waved my hand, indicating for Saul to write it down if the answer was yes.

  "No, the moment of death is obscured, probably by the marks on the bodies" - moving my eyes downwards, I could see Assan's right fist clenching in anger.

  "Come on, if we're lucky we'll be able to find this guy before he takes bodies from the last planets" - that leaves Earth, Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Mars, five possible victims.

  "Why not just use one body?" - the question came naturally from Saul, Assan and I looked at him.

  "Depending on what he's looking for, only the eyes are possible to use from same body, one certainty is that it's not necromancy, we wouldn't have bodies to analyze in that case" - despite the situation, Assan said relieved, even if more people are killed, it means that at least we'll be able to track them down.

  We left the small port and returned to the roadblock, Cassiel was leaning alone in a car waiting for us, Alessandro must have already left.

  "Did you said his name wrong in the conversation, sister?" - was also a possible explanation.

  "You're having too much fun with the situation" - she grabbed Saul's notepad to read it, while at the same time telling him what she'd found out, and I could only feel sorry for the boy.

  "Apart from these two bodies, there are more in the morgue, a woman without her uterus and a man without his skin, Alessandro said that, according to the coroners, the man's skin was torn off while he was still alive."

  All I could see was Saul vomiting on the floor at the end of Cassiel's speech, we were already in a precarious situation, these parts represented Mars and Venus.

  "We also had a disappearance two days ago, a seven-year-old child was abducted on her way home from school, let's assume the worst" - despite the bad information, Cassiel said it calmly, we've encountered many like this, the only strange part is the location.

  "I'm going to assess the bodies in the morgue and say a prayer of protection" - I could see Assan's back begin to twitch, I helped Saul away, the boy was dizzy after vomiting.

  "Close your wings, I'll go with you too gargoyle, you two try to find something on this child, go to her school and repeat the return journey, call immediately if you find anything" - careless in her personal life, punctual at work, never change sister.

  I nodded and left the place with Saulo, helping him into the car and then touching his forehead with my right hand.

  "The Lord sustains him on his sickbed. When he is sick, you restore him to health" - a faint light enveloped Saul, his eyes and face improved in color and he looked at me.

  "I have to write that one down" - I saw him pick up the pad again, and I stopped him.

  "In a dangerous situation you should remember these things in your head, get used to memorizing information" - I saw the discouragement on his face, but it was true, I closed the door and went to the front of the car, Cassiel and Assan approached.

  "We'll hitch a ride with the police, this was the location of the kidnapping" - Cassiel handed me a piece of paper with the name of the street, I put it in my pants pocket

  "Be careful, Assan can't fight well away from the church" - my sister just waved her hand.

  "As long as we don't face our target in his lair, we'll be one hundred percent safe, you can go" - I could see a slight smile forming on her lips, despite dismissing the warning she was happy with the concern, I got into the car.

  I saw Assan and Cassiel drive away, i started the car and immediately drove towards the water.